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  • The Financialisation of Power

    How financiers rule Africa

    by Sarah Bracking ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The financial crash of 2008 led people all over the world to ask how far financiers are in control of our lives. To what extent does what they do with our money affect our everyday lives? This book asks whether the crisis, and subsequent use of public subsidies to help the international economy recover, was a unique event, or a symptom of a wider malaise where financiers have effectively usurped ... Read more

    $94.81 CAD

  • Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation

    Creating Values that Matter

    Edited by Sarah Bracking, Aurora Fredriksen, Sian Sullivan, Philip Woodhouse ...
    Series series Routledge Explorations in Development Studies
    Policy-makers are increasingly trying to assign economic values to areas such as ecologies, the atmosphere, even human lives. These new values, assigned to areas previously considered outside of economic systems, often act to qualify, alter or replace former non-pecuniary values. Valuing Development, Environment and Conservation looks to explore the complex interdependencies, contradictions and ... Read more

    $86.56 CAD

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    What Can Be Done?

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  • Configuring the World: A Critical Political Economy Approach

    by Richard T. Griffiths ...
    I truly believe Griffiths’ new introduction in international political economy is unparalleled! It is amazing how different theoretical perspectives, together with their methodological approaches, are lucidly presented… and supported by extraordinarily well-chosen cases examples. First rate; a masterpiece really! Anton Hemerijck, Professor of Institutional Policy Analysis, Vrije Universiteit ... Read more

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  • Economics: The Key Concepts

    by Donald Rutherford ...
    Series series Routledge Key Guides
    An A-Z of contemporary economics in all its forms, Economics: the Key Concepts is an affordable, accessible reference for students, lecturers and economists at every level. The key topics explored include:competition and monopolydevelopment economicsgame theoryproperty rightstaxation.Fully cross-referenced with extensive guides to further reading, this is the essential comprehensive pocket ... Read more

    $56.33 CAD

  • Globalisation and Poverty

    Channels and Policy Responses

    Edited by Maurizio Bussolo, Jeffery I Round ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Globalisation
    The consequences of globalization for the world's poor are uncertain and fierce rhetoric is dividing its supporters and detractors.The channels of effect of essentially macroeconomic shocks on the microeconomic position of individuals and households in poor countries are many and various. This book addresses three core issues: 1) what are the main channels of effect? 2) what are the lessons to be ... Read more

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  • The Problem with Banks

    by Lena Rethel, Timothy J. Sinclair ...
    Banks of all sorts are troubled institutions. The cost of public bail-outs associated with the subprime crisis in the United States alone may be as high as US$5 trillion. What is the problem with banks? Why do they seem to be at the centre of economic and financial turmoil down through the ages? In this provocative and timely book, Rethel and Sinclair seek answers to these questions, arguing that ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Money and Finance After the Crisis

    Critical Thinking for Uncertain Times

    Edited by Brett Christophers, Andrew Leyshon, Geoff Mann ...
    Series series Antipode Book Series
    Money and Finance After the Crisis provides a critical multi-disciplinary perspective on the post-crisis financial world in all its complexity, dynamism and unpredictability. Contributions illuminate the diversity of ways in which money and finance continue to shape global political economy and society.A multidisciplinary collection of essays that study the geographies of money and finance that ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Diversity of Modern Capitalism

    by Bruno Amable ...
    This book considers why institutional forms of modern capitalist economies differ internationally, and proposes a typology of capitalism based on the theory of institutional complementarity. Different economic models are not simply characterized by different institutional forms, but also by particular patterns of interaction between complementary institutions which are the core characteristics of ... Read more

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  • Efficiency, Equality and the Ownership of Property (Routledge Revivals)

    by James E. Meade ...
    Series series Collected Works of James Meade
    First published in 1964, this is a study of the extreme inequalities in the ownership of property, in economies across the globe. Professor Meade examines in depth the economic, demographic and social factors which lead to such inequalities. He considers a wide range of remedial policies – educational development, reformed death duties and capital taxes, demographic policies, trade union action, ... Read more

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  • New Public Management

    An Introduction

    by Jan-Erik Lane ...
    New public management is a topical phrase to describe how management techniques from the private sector are now being applied to public services. This book provides a completely up-to-date overview of the main theoretical models of public sector management, and examines the key changes that have occurred as more and more public services are contracted out to private organisations, as the public ... Read more

    $101.68 CAD

  • Global Finance

    by Robert Holton ...
    Series series Shortcuts
    Written under the shadow of the global financial crisis, this book charts the current shape of global finance and tries to explain why the crisis arose – and what can be done about it. Economics alone cannot fully explain how global finance operates, and why it is so crisis prone. Global Finance offers a wider approach in three key ways, by:setting markets and financial market failure in a ... Read more

    $79.69 CAD